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like a madman he ran out of the hall advice/not-selling-out

Pure, unsullied, beautiful as a bride, the artist’s work stood before him. And if only the slightest desire to shine, if only a perhaps excusable vanity, if only a thought of showing itself off to the mob had been evident there—no, not a one! It rose up humbly. It was simple, innocent, and divine, …

—p.87 The Nose and Other Stories The Portrait (1835 version) (65) by Nikolai Gogol
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deep in the system they once loathed advice/not-selling-out

There are others whom the waves of thought and art in the forties, when they retreated, left stranded. Brando, like Welles neurotically overweight, and by some mysterious choice out of things, respecting no one and least of all his own profession and his incomparable gifts, hides on a dirt hill ove…

—p.135 Elia Kazan: A Life by Elia Kazan
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deep in the system they once loathed advice/not-selling-out

There are others whom the waves of thought and art in the forties, when they retreated, left stranded. Brando, like Welles neurotically overweight, and by some mysterious choice out of things, respecting no one and least of all his own profession and his incomparable gifts, hides on a dirt hill ove…

—p.135 by Elia Kazan
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deep in the system they once loathed advice/not-selling-out

There are others whom the waves of thought and art in the forties, when they retreated, left stranded. Brando, like Welles neurotically overweight, and by some mysterious choice out of things, respecting no one and least of all his own profession and his incomparable gifts, hides on a dirt hill ove…

—p.135 by Elia Kazan
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he was the artist-revolutionary of the day

When I think of large talents that were beached by a crisis in their lives, I think first of Clifford Odets. There is one sorrow that must pain men so stranded most: that they were unable to live up to the image of themselves that once gave them their pride. Clifford was what Orson was not, a celeb…

—p.134 by Elia Kazan